I Ran Away to Evil 3: A Cozy Litrpg Rom-Com

A mysterious soothsayer and a reluctant royal fend off spies, assassins, and unexpected attraction in the final installment of this romantasy series.

Gerda Jones isn’t your average bridge troll. Sure, she can compose riddles with the best of them, but she has other skills up her sleeve no one would expect . . . and a backstory no one would believe. She uses her fortune-telling talents to change the fates of everyone around her, all the while avoiding getting too close to anyone herself.

But all that changes when Gerda catches the eye of Duke Julian von Slyke at his sister’s wedding. The tall, dark, and handsome half-elf is causing Gerda to let her guard down-and inviting a royal heap of trouble into her life.

Julian would do anything to escape courtly intrigue and endless parties, but he can’t miss his own sister’s nuptials. Good thing, too, because from day one of the celebration he’s called on to help deal with everything from poisoned arrows and amphibian curses to a missing bride. And at the center of every mishap there’s an infuriatingly beguiling troll.

As Gerda’s hidden identity begins to unravel, her attraction to Duke Julian continues to grow. Together, saving the wedding seems easy . . . but when that’s done, will the unlikely pair be able to leave their pasts behind and unite their futures?

A whimsical and twisty mashup of isekai, romance, and LitRPG, I Ran Away to Evil 3 is the charming conclusion of the series that asked: ＂What if Bridgerton was filled with magical creatures?＂ and ＂Who is the elusive Madame Potts?＂

The third volume of the hit LitRPG romantasy series-with more than a million views on Royal Road-now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

Mystic Neptune was born and raised on an island surrounded by temperate rainforests, lakes, mountains, and endless ocean. She started writing books when she was twelve, and by the age of fourteen she’d written her first novel. It was about an elven space princess whose evil stepmother messed up her trans-dimensional portal trip to university and sent her to a war-torn restricted universe instead. It was very cheesy, and the ultimately-nine-book series was lost forever on the family PC (Windows 95, anyone?) that died a very final death the summer she was sixteen. By then, Mystic was living with her very sick single mother and her little brother, and working nights to help pay the bills. There was a little time to read during her school breaks, but not for much else--and no money to replace the home computer. So she filled notebooks with the beginnings of stories and eventually got a laptop in college. Around that time, she also met the love of her life, who read just as much as she did, and they got married shortly after a terrible accident befell her . . . One day when Mystic was walking to the mall, an iron fence from a construction site fell on her. She suffered from amnesia so bad that she had to relearn English and re-meet all her friends and family. She even walked past her mother in the street and didn’t recognize her. But it’s OK! She got better! Once she could read again, Mystic got into isekai because she was tired of picking up books only to remember she’d already finished them. Isekai was new at the time, so she didn’t need to worry that her silly memory would come back halfway through a story and spoil the ending. Mystic enjoys reading light novels, webnovels, LitRPG, gamelit, and fantasy. She also loves middle grade and YA books. Her favorite authors/heroes are Patricia C. Wrede, Tamora Pierce, and Diana Wynne Jones. In Mystic’s spare time, she writes and does edit-swap date nights with her husband, Jolly Jupiter. O he of famed dwarven comedy! She also runs after her daughter, Phoebe Vaara. Phoebe is named after Saturn’s moon, and Vaara means Danger in Finnish and Stranger in Greek. Phoebe is a rockstar social diva toddler who hikes mountains and has more friends than both her parents combined, so it fits. Mystic is probably writing right now.